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Where does the whole Individual Contributor terminology suddenly come from? I've suddenly seen it pop up many times over the last months and tbh the term doesn'
by Avalaxy 5y ago
Where does the whole Individual Contributor terminology suddenly come from? I've suddenly seen it pop up many times over the last months and tbh the term doesn't make any sense. We just used to call them developers, engineers, or whatever.
- dbt00 5y agoI've been hearing the term in silicon valley for over a decade, it's not particularly new. A lot of time in projects like these you end up getting shunted to tech leads, managers, etc, whose job it is to "take the coordination work" so that people writing code can "focus on implementation". The point of this advice is very specifically to bypass the coordinators and go directly to the people using your project in their code to make sure you understand their concerns, and don't play political telephone.
- tomnipotent 5y agoI've seen its popularity coincide with emphasis on non-managerial growth opportunities in large tech companies. Gitlab uses it for determining compensation, for example (the top IC is equivalent to a VP in their org). https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation/compensation-calculator/ https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation...